Beauty Time Inc’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.3d 140 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Ridgewood Board of Education v. N.E. (1999), Beanstalk Group, Inc. v. AM General Corp. (2002)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wilson v. Garcia · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Lanham Act contains no express statute of limitations and the general rule is that when a federal statute provides no limitations for suits, the court must look to the state statute of limitations for analogous types of actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A fair, proper and due degree of care and acting, measured with reference to the particular circumstances; such diligence, care, or attention as might be expected from a man of ordinary prudence and activity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because we look to state law for the appropriate statute of limitations, we also look to Pennsylvania law on the closely related questions of tolling and application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.